Publications (45)
Measurements of ultracold neutron upscattering and absorption in polyethylene and vanadium
E. I. Sharapov, C. L. Morris, M. Makela +27
The study of neutron cross sections for elements used as efficient ``absorbers'' of ultracold neutrons (UCN) is crucial for many precision experiments in nuclear and particle physi…
Fill and dump measurement of the neutron lifetime using an asymmetric magneto-gravitational trap
C. Cude-Woods, F. M. Gonzalez, E. M. Fries +39
The past two decades have yielded several new measurements and reanalyses of older measurements of the neutron lifetime. These have led to a 4.4 standard deviation discrepancy betw…
A new method for measuring the neutron lifetime using an in situ neutron detector
C. L. Morris, E. R. Adamek, L. J. Broussard +28
The neutron lifetime is important in understanding the production of light nuclei in the first minutes after the big bang and it provides basic information on the charged weak curr…
Demonstration of a solid deuterium source of ultra-cold neutrons
A. Saunders, J. M. Anaya, T. J. Bowles +26
Ultra-cold neutrons (UCN), neutrons with energies low enough to be confined by the Fermi potential in material bottles, are playing an increasing role in measurements of fundamenta…
Search for dark matter decay of the free neutron from the UCNA experiment: n
X. Sun, E. Adamek, B. Allgeier +57
It has been proposed recently that a previously unobserved neutron decay branch to a dark matter particle () could account for the discrepancy in the neutron lifetime observed…
Evaluation of commercial nickel-phosphorus coating for ultracold neutron guides using a pinhole bottling method
R. W. Pattie, E. Adamek, T. Brenner +24
We report on the evaluation of commercial electroless nickel phosphorus (NiP) coatings for ultracold neutron (UCN) transport and storage. The material potential of 50~m thick N…